Our Team

Our team provides strategic leadership to ensure alignment with the overall READINESS vision and NSF objectives. We establish priorities across technical teams, personnel, equipment and project activities; monitor progress against milestones, deliverables, KPIs and project risks; resolve cross-team challenges and strengthen integration across the program; and oversee major decisions, NSF communications and reporting.

Executive Committee

Jun Lou

Principal Investigator | Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Lydia E. Kavraki

Co-PI | University Professor | Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing | Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering | Director, Ken Kennedy Institute

Geoffroy Hautier

Co-PI | Trustee Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Faculty, Rice Advanced Materials Institute | Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Anastasios Kyrillidis

Co-PI | Noah Harding Associate Professor, Computer Science | Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Michael Carpenter

Co-PI | Vice President for Research - College of Arts + Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Senior Personnel

Pulickel Ajayan

Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering

Zhantao Chen

Assistant Professor Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering UT Austin

Kaiyu Hang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Shengxi Huang

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Chris Jermaine

Chair, Department of Computer Science Victor E. Cameron Professor of Computer Science Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Lane Martin

Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy Director, Rice Advanced Materials Institute

Winston Soboyejo

SUNY Polytechnic Institute President

Ming Tang

Associate Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering MSNE Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Jasim Uddin

Wolfspeed Endowed Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Hanyu Zhu

Associate Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering William Marsh Rice Chair MSNE Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies Martel College Advisor